Words starting with b

Words and definitions

Back means: To a former state, condition, or station; as, to go back to private life; to go back to barbarism.

Back means: (Of time) In times past; ago.

Back means: Away from contact; by reverse movement.

Back means: In concealment or reserve; in one's own possession; as, to keep back the truth; to keep back part of the money due to another.

Back means: In a state of restraint or hindrance.

Back means: In return, repayment, or requital.

Back means: In withdrawal from a statement, promise, or undertaking; as, he took back0 the offensive words.

Back means: In arrear; as, to be back in one's rent.

Backarack means: See Bacharach.

Backare means: Same as Baccare.

Words and definitions

Zoned means: Wearing a zone, or girdle.

Zone means: To girdle; to encircle.

Zone means: Circuit; circumference.

Zone means: A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections.

Zone means: A band or area of growth encircling anything; as, a zone of evergreens on a mountain; the zone of animal or vegetable life in the ocean around an island or a continent; the Alpine zone, that part of mountains which is above the limit of tree growth.

Zone means: A band or stripe extending around a body.

Zone means: The portion of the surface of a sphere included between two parallel planes; the portion of a surface of revolution included between two planes perpendicular to the axis.

Zone means: One of the five great divisions of the earth, with respect to latitude and temperature.

Zone means: A girdle; a cincture.

Zonate means: Divided by parallel planes; as, zonate tetraspores, found in certain red algae.